In a 2016 interview with Teen Vogue, Duckie Thot called out the beauty industry for being woefully unprepared when it came to doing hair and makeup for models of color. The model recounted a time on Australia's Next Top Model when she was asked to cornrow her own hair for a shoot because the stylists didn't know how. "I sat in front of the mirror silently crying before my shoot doing my own hair, cameras rolling while all the other girls had hairstylists, s*** scared I was going to get eliminated because a few "hairstylists" didn't know how to do their job," she wrote. "It's not fun being bullied for something you can't control and to have a top model woman of colour who I thought encouraged acceptance and self love call me out for rocking my natural hair, isn't cool at all."

While strides toward greater inclusivity have been made since then, Duckie's latest update shows that the industry isn't quite there yet. Duckie recently shared that she frequently needs to bring her own makeup to photoshoots because makeup artists aren't prepared to work with her skin tone. "I take my own makeup to shoots every time," she said in the interview accompanying her cover shoot for ES, the London Evening Standard's magazine. "I tend to bring a bottle of foundation and some clip-ins/ weaves on most my shoots," she said. "Believe it or not, a lot of the time makeup artists or even hair stylists, they’ve never worked with a girl with my complexion or hair texture. I do my part to make sure they properly do theirs. It's not a personal thing against them or their work, I just know my skin and hair better than anyone else does — and I know what works well for me."

Duckie told ES that she's not surprised that makeup kits on set aren't stocked with the right products. "Growing up, makeup was ordered online, shipped from America or London," she added said. "I found it difficult — I’m really, really dark: sometimes even the M.A.C. shades weren’t dark enough." Her favorite brands, which she knows she can rely on to match her skin, are Lancôme and, of course, Fenty Beauty. In fact, she considers Rihanna a mentor, and has even starred in one of Fenty's campaigns.

While the industry still has a lot of work to do — both in creating products that work for dark skin tones, and educating makeup artists on how to use them — it's voices like Duckie's that are helping to propel it in the right direction.